Best of Lists

Jennifer Gannon is a pop culture and music writer. She is one half of the ’80s/early ’90s-tastic club night Lime & Fancy, which happens Friday in Wigwam and is free in. See all the top 10 tracks of 2016 guest selections. 1. Niki & the Dove – So Much It Hurts Due to this year… Read more »

Byron Yeates is a Galway-based DJ with Alice. As a DJ he plays house, techno, acid, disco and Italo among others. Check his Soundcloud for mixes. This past weekend, he made his debut at Panorama Bar in Berghain, Berlin. See all the top 10 tracks of 2016 guest selections. 1. The Groupies – The Groupies… Read more »

Kelly-Anne Byrne is a regular DJ at festivals throughout Ireland. She’s known for her love of disco and soul, which manifests itself in a monthly club night called Burnin’ Up in The Grand Social and a nationwide show on Saturday and Sunday night on Today FM called The Beat Goes On. The Beat Goes On… Read more »

Ciara Brady is one of the newest names on Dublin’s DJ scene but quickly made her name for her selection of Disco, Funk, Groove and House music at regular nights at Toast Dublin and Neon Neon’s The Little Disco at The Academy. Check out her Mixcloud. ~You can also catch her at Lumo’s Christmas Party… Read more »

Sally Cinnamon is a Dublin-based DJ and my cohost on our newly-formed Loose Joints Podcast (Subscribe), where you may have heard some of these tracks previously. See all the top 10 tracks of 2016 guest selections. 1. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – Help Me Get There (feat. Kurt Vile) Only heard it this… Read more »

Cian Ó Cíobháin is the presenter of An Taobh Tuathail five nights a week on Radio Na Gaeltachta, he’s a DJ for 110th Street in Galway and for hire as a wedding DJ too (read my recent interview with him last year). He’s an excellent selector (but he just couldn’t limit himself to 10 this… Read more »

Ruairi Lynch makes music under the name Bantum. This year, he released his second LP Move with guest features from Loah, Rusangano Family, CC Brez, Farah Elle and Senita. He plays Cork tonight with Rusangano and Dublin on the 16th next week. See all the top 10 tracks of 2016 guest selections. 1. Childish Gambino… Read more »

Niall D’Arcy aka Dj Deece is a Kildare man, a resident at Somewhere Club? on Wednesday nights and a resident Hidden Agenda – watch out for his Deece Series. He has lot of gigs this month. Here is a list from last year. See all the top 10 tracks of 2016 guest selections. 1. Midland – Final… Read more »

Louise Bruton is a freelance journalist, pop culture enthusiast, lone wolf and party ledgebag. She loves Craig David and getting famous people on her knee. She combined both of those things just this week. She also runs Legless In Dublin which reviews Dublin places in terms of wheelchair accessibility. See all the top 10 tracks… Read more »

Stevie G is a Cork-based DJ who produces music with Ian Ring as aboveDat. Their third single is out in early 2017. See all the top 10 tracks of 2016 guest selections. 1. Frank Ocean – Pink & White This album is a masterpiece in my opinion. I listen to it incessantly, and this is… Read more »

Stephen Manning is a booker, promoter and DJ with Hidden Agenda club who book fine regular nights of electronic acts of both local and international, mainly in Wah Wah Club and District 8. Hidden Agena also booked stages at Metropolis Festival and Forbidden Fruit. This is his latest mix. See a list of Hidden Agenda’s… Read more »

The music world moves fast. Thousands of songs are competing for your attention every day so it takes something special for a full-length album to not only get your attention in the first place but keep you coming back for more. I found 2016 to be one of the most testing and taxing times for… Read more »

Gavin Elsted is one of the three resident DJs at Lumo Club (alongside myself and Simon Roche), the monthly night which celebrated being a a year-old in Yamamori Tengu in Dublin in October, a year in which we also took the club ethos to Body & Soul, Metropolis, Forbidden Fruit and most recently, Dingle this… Read more »

My favourite songs of the past month. Get the majority of them as a continuous playlists below on Spotify. Listen on Spotify The top songs of the month Click the title to see the original post. 1. A Tribe Called Quest – We The People 2. The xx – On Hold 3. Saint Sister – Tin Man… Read more »

My favourite songs of the past month. Get the majority of them as a continuous playlists below on Spotify and Soundcloud. Listen on Spotify The top songs of the month Bon Iver – ‘8 Circle’ Young Marco – ‘Dreamless’ 808 State – ‘In Your Face’ (Bicep remix) Solange – ‘Cranes In The Sky’ (Kaytranada edit) NxWorries – Anderson… Read more »